WEEK 14 CELEBRATE KANSAS VOICES PROJECT
I used iMovie on my iPad to create a Celebrate Kansas video. I made my video on the Sante Fe Trail that went through Lyons, KS. And to do that I traveled myself to Lyons to visit my friends who have lived there their whole lives and know the history of that area and of the Sante Fe Trail!
I enjoyed making this video project with iMovie. I enjoyed using the apps that I used to enhance the video project: CLYP and iMovie. I was glad to have known about CLYP for this project, because it made it easy to engrain sound clips into the movie. I feel like I have gained quite a bit of experience this semester using iMovie which I am happy about because I have learned a lot from using it and have gained a lot of confidence in making video presentations. Practice really does make perfect, folks! (Not that I'm perfect at it at at all... just optimistic. (: )
I learned a lot about the Sante Fe Trail from my interview with the Sellers. I enjoyed listening to them talk about the different trail heads and how they wove and intersected throughout our own KANSAS! I hadn't know that the Sante Fe Trail went through Kansas until I explored this topic. Learning about historical events that occured hundreds of years ago is more applicable and interesting to students when it has a sense of personal connection. If I had grown up having Grandparents telling me about the Sante Fe Trail that went through their very own feedlot territory, I'm sure I would have been very familiar with its facts and tales by now. But Grandparents don't have to be the only ones who talk about it, although I am certainly grateful for their willingness to share stories about it from personal knowledge. But as teachers, it's important for students to hear about these things in the classroom, so that they can then take what they hear and learn about in class and foster curiosity outside of the classroom, and then they may find themselves talking to a Grandparent who does know all about it. Curiosity is a great thing, and questions tend to flow when kids have somewhere to begin - in this case, personal Kansas history! Y A Y K A N S A S !!
Here's the video that I created for students to learn more about the Trail.
I used iMovie on my iPad to create a Celebrate Kansas video. I made my video on the Sante Fe Trail that went through Lyons, KS. And to do that I traveled myself to Lyons to visit my friends who have lived there their whole lives and know the history of that area and of the Sante Fe Trail!
I enjoyed making this video project with iMovie. I enjoyed using the apps that I used to enhance the video project: CLYP and iMovie. I was glad to have known about CLYP for this project, because it made it easy to engrain sound clips into the movie. I feel like I have gained quite a bit of experience this semester using iMovie which I am happy about because I have learned a lot from using it and have gained a lot of confidence in making video presentations. Practice really does make perfect, folks! (Not that I'm perfect at it at at all... just optimistic. (: )
I learned a lot about the Sante Fe Trail from my interview with the Sellers. I enjoyed listening to them talk about the different trail heads and how they wove and intersected throughout our own KANSAS! I hadn't know that the Sante Fe Trail went through Kansas until I explored this topic. Learning about historical events that occured hundreds of years ago is more applicable and interesting to students when it has a sense of personal connection. If I had grown up having Grandparents telling me about the Sante Fe Trail that went through their very own feedlot territory, I'm sure I would have been very familiar with its facts and tales by now. But Grandparents don't have to be the only ones who talk about it, although I am certainly grateful for their willingness to share stories about it from personal knowledge. But as teachers, it's important for students to hear about these things in the classroom, so that they can then take what they hear and learn about in class and foster curiosity outside of the classroom, and then they may find themselves talking to a Grandparent who does know all about it. Curiosity is a great thing, and questions tend to flow when kids have somewhere to begin - in this case, personal Kansas history! Y A Y K A N S A S !!
Here's the video that I created for students to learn more about the Trail.